Running my workstation and server on Debian stable. Debian always. Debian forever. 
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Amazing for a server. Both my servers run Debian and I have had no issues.
I run it with KDE for my daily driver & gaming and it is very boring and stable, which is what I want in my PC. Debian is 99% of the time supported.
I recommend it.
I’ve invested so much time and effort into CachyOS. I’ve been running it for over 2 years now. A switch would be very hard and unnecessary work for me since it works no issues for me. Otherwise, Debian would be on my machine.
Not only does cachy work perfectly, Debian needs so much fiddling around to get latest software versions it's a hindrance for a lot of stuff including gaming
Gaming and getting the latest kernel is a big one for me. My gpu and cpu are very new and they require the latest kernels. I’m sure there are ways to bring in the newest kernel to Debian, or just use Sid or testing, but why do that and what I have works no problem?
Makes sense. I started with Ubuntu so Debian was a very natural move for me
I tried a few non-debian distro but always came back to it as it is the one I am most familiar with.
I run it on my daily driver laptop and I'm happy as a clam.
I did run it for a couple of year in the past. It was solid.
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Yeah, Debian is my favorite server software by a mile.
Yeah, Debian is my favorite ~~server~~ software by a mile.
FTFY
What the fuck is a mile
Debian has become my favorite server OS. Some more specialized distros are great for specific use cases, but for 90% of my stuff, I just install Debian and chill.
Also, don't worry, Debian has plenty of Toy Story characters left for many years of releases to come!
I surfed a few distros before landing on Debian. It solved (almost) all the issues I had with Linux. Debian for life.
I only ever deploy and develop on Debian. Community run distros all the way. I had bad experiences with Redhat decades ago and do everything I can to avoid it or its siblings.
Debian has faults but it is often a taste thing. I like systems that give me upstream with minimal patches, like Arch. I moved to Arch on all desktops/laptops. The Debian devs repeatedly doing dumb shit with ssh patches was part of that. Arch is not unreliable but it is unstable. All that means is that software updates which aren't backwards compatible sometimes require intervention . To be clear that is not a fault with Arch but it does make it much less suitable for long hassle free server deployments. Also Arch doesn't have the Debian security announce list or maintain a stable production environment for years with backported security fixes and unnattended security updates.
Debian 14 is here?
It's not. Post is confusing.
No, not until 2027. I don't really know why this meme was posted at this exact moment.
I really need one of these shirts
DietPi, anyone? 🥹
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